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California State Compensation Insurance Fund files average 10 percent premium decrease
Jun 19 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund filed its sixth consecutive rate reduction, reflecting an average collectible premium decrease of 10 percent on new and renewal workers’ compensation policies with...
Pride Industries Employee Arrested for Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Jun 16 2006 // A Sacramento man has turned himself in for insurance fraud. Darren Stanton was a long term employee of PRIDE Industries, an employer of people with disabilities, according to LWP Claims Solutions Inc. On March 28, 2005,...
Insurers Defend Job, Education as Auto Insurance Pricing Criteria in N.J.
Jun 13 2006 // Insurance industry representatives urged New Jersey lawmakers not to restrict insurers’ use of certain rating variables including occupation and education in the pricing of auto insurance policies, insisting that the...
Legal and effective incentive compensation still under fire
Jun 5 2006 // There is a critical need to preserve the right of insurance companies to determine how best to compensate the insurance agents and brokers who sell their products. In this regard, the insurance industry is like virtually...
Legal and effective incentive compensation still under fire
Jun 5 2006 // There is a critical need to preserve the right of insurance companies to determine how best to compensate the insurance agents and brokers who sell their products. In this regard, the insurance industry is like virtually...
Q & A with Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Albert Betts
Jun 5 2006 // Chief of state’s workers’ comp division says much reform work has been done but there’s more to do Insurance Journal: What are some of the major aspects of the Division of Workers’...
Big ‘I’ Bob Rusbuldt is on the job
Jun 5 2006 // Rusbuldt, chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America, needs no introduction to independent agents, insurance company executives or the power brokers in Washington, D.C., before whom...
Legal and effective incentive compensation still under fire
Jun 5 2006 // There is a critical need to preserve the right of insurance companies to determine how best to compensate the insurance agents and brokers who sell their products. In this regard, the insurance industry is like virtually...
Legal and effective incentive compensation still under fire
Jun 5 2006 // There is a critical need to preserve the right of insurance companies to determine how best to compensate the insurance agents and brokers who sell their products. In this regard, the insurance industry is like virtually...
Q & A with Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Albert Betts
Jun 5 2006 // Insurance Journal: What are some of the major aspects of the Division of Workers’ Compensation’s Strategic Management Plan for implementing workers’ compensation system reforms? Commissioner Albert Betts:...
Integro Appoints Kilduff a Managing Principal for Healthcare in N.Y.
May 31 2006 // Integro Appoints Ruth Kilduff as Managing Principal in the Firm’s New York Office Insurance broker Integro thas named Ruth Kilduff as a managing principal, specializing in healthcare coverage, for the firm’s...
Service from Progressive Cuts Time Managing Crash Claims
May 30 2006 // More than 18,200 car accidents happen in the Austin metropolitan area each year–that’s about 350 a week or 50 a day. And, while about half of all claims handled by Progressive in the area are considered minor...
The Hartford settles with N.Y., Conn. over annuity compensation
May 22 2006 // News Currents The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. has settled with both the Connecticut and New York attorneys general regarding The Hartford’s use of expense reimbursement agreements in its terminal/maturity...
Minimizing litigations and investigations by managing e-records
May 22 2006 // The focus of litigations and investigations on electronic documents, particularly e-mails, and the increasing accountability of compliance programs, including record retention, are leading organizations to reexamine their...
R.C. Knox Settles with Conn. AG Over Compensation But Denies Wrongdoing
May 19 2006 // An insurance broker has paid the state $754,804 to settle allegations that it accepted undisclosed compensation from insurance carriers in exchange for placing insurance for the state, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal...
Hill Elected to National Council on Compensation Insurance Board
May 18 2006 // John T. Hill has been elected to the 2006 board of directors of the National Council on Compensation Insurance Holdings in Boca Raton, Fla. according to Gary Thompson, chair of the 2006 NCCI board and senior vice president...
Texas Best, Vermont Worst Tort Climate for Jobs, Capital Investment, Claims New Study
May 16 2006 // In the competition for jobs and capital investment among the states, those states that suffer from high tort costs will continue to lose jobs and businesses to states with superior tort systems, according to a new report...
The Hartford Settles with N.Y., Conn. Over Annuity Compensation
May 11 2006 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. has settled with both the Connecticut and New York attorneys general regarding The Hartford’s use of expense reimbursement agreements in its terminal/maturity funding group...
N.D. Blues President Allowed to Keep Job, Undergoing Alcohol Treatment
May 11 2006 // The president of North Dakota’s largest health insurance provider will be allowed to keep his job under certain conditions, after pleading guilty to drunken driving, the insurer’s board chairman says. Michael...
American Association of Managing General Agents Gains Exclusive License for London Market Insurance Test
May 9 2006 // The American Association of Managing General Agents announced that it has an exclusive license with the Chartered Insurance Institute to offer the Lloyd’s of London Market Insurance Test. Passing the test is required...
